Georg von Bülow (Major General)

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Georg Karl August von Bülow (born July 23, 1853 in Marienwerder , † December 20, 1936 in Berlin-Halensee ) was a Prussian officer , most recently major general .

Life

Georg von Bülow came from the Mecklenburg nobility of the von Bülow family . He was the second eldest son of the Prussian government councilor Albert von Bülow (1814–1899) and Marie Helene, born von Kameke (1828–1897) from Stolp .

After finishing school, like many of his family members, he embarked on a military career in the Prussian Army . As a major general he retired at the end of his career in the capital of Berlin.

In 1889 he married Käthe Schmidt (* 1864) in Greifswald , who came from this Hanseatic city on the Baltic Sea. The children Hans, Margarete and Werner emerged from this marriage. The latter son was shot while crossing the Hungarian-Romanian border on May 8, 1920 as a Prussian lieutenant. The eldest son Hans von Bülow, however, fell in 1916 as a Prussian first lieutenant at Péronne .

Bülow died in Berlin at the age of 83.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der nobeligen houses , 1901, first year, p. 478.
  2. Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser , Part A, Volume 41, Gotha 1942, p. 104.